
Westmoreland extends 14 year coal agreement at Poplar River mine
Westmoreland Coal Co. has extended its long-term coal supply agreement with Saskatchewan Power Corp. from the Poplar River mine.
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Westmoreland Coal Co. has extended its long-term coal supply agreement with Saskatchewan Power Corp. from the Poplar River mine.

The average scrapping age for dry bulk carriers has dropped in recent years on the back of supply in the fleet and Chinese-government incentives to scrap ships.

Coal of Africa’s proposed takeover of Universal Coal has been approved by Competition Commission South Africa.

Pennsylvania anthracite producer, Atlantic Coal, has suspended its AIM listing in order to pursue the acquisition of a larger rival.

Stanmore Coal is to restart metallurgical coal production at Isaac Plains after buying the mine from Vale and Sumitomo Corp. in August.

Loesche to resell four coal mills, type LM 20.2D and LM 19.2D, from Electrabel Belgium’s coal-fired power plant in Belgium, which decommissioned in 2014.

Wongawilli Colliery, the shuttered New South Wales coal mine, will restart mining operations in early 2016.

The US National Mining Association has indicated Paris climate agreement would lead to larger bills for US consumers. It emphasised developing technology for clean coal is a better way to address climate change.

MineSight schedule optimizer now features block model scheduling following the release of MSSO Version 9.3 by Hexagon Mining.

Aspire Mining has announced that the Nuurstei coal project in Mongolia has received proximate analysis from core samples taken from the Ekhgoviin Chuluu Joint Venture’s 2015 exploration programme.

A round-up of the week’s coal news from updates on the latest coal projects to short-term outlooks on US coal production and prices.

WellDog has announced the release of the third generation of its GasMapper coal gas assessment service, extending the service to use in the slim boreholes used widely by the coal mining industry.